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Dear all, I'm looking for someone (or someones) to take over ownership and administation of the WolfeWiki, https://www.wolfewiki.com . I set this up quite a while back now*, and…
23 Feb 2022, 14:55
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Wolfe and Gaiman were good friends, see eg: <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/13/gene-wolfe-hero-neil-gaiman-sf>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/13/gene-wolfe-…
21 Sep 2019, 15:41
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High praise indeed, to be deemed worthy of ranking alongside such a titan. I struggle to imagine who the two authors might have been who were thought superior to both of them. M…
29 Apr 2015, 07:40
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"-latry" as a suffix can be found with a number of other prefixes, perhaps most familiarly in "idolatry". Of course Wolfe was thinking of the play on latro in Latin meaning thie…
22 Apr 2015, 09:42
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Nice :-) Mo…
04 Nov 2014, 10:17
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gah! -- I wish I still didn't know that. Need some eschatology in there too :-) Mo…
03 Nov 2014, 18:11
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Hi Rick, Those are 'dummy' questions that are set up in the 'new page' template that's used whenever a page is added to the wiki about a work of Wolfe's that's not yet been cov…
03 Nov 2014, 16:12
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This is a great spot, Marc, thanks! It sheds a lot of light. It is perhaps notable that the best translation of the invented word 'Horla' is 'Outsider'. Maupassant's tale was su…
21 Aug 2014, 16:53
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Well, Wolfe was only 38 when Galactic Pot-Healer came out: and I think most serious SF readers in the late 60s would have been keeping up with Dick's output, as he was doing som…
07 Aug 2014, 15:15
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A thought that's just occurred -- is it possible that the name "Tarnung" indicates a response of sorts to the Glimmung (which means roughly "brightness") in Philip K. Dick's nove…
07 Aug 2014, 09:23
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You can find such a list on the WolfeWiki: http://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=WolfeWiki.StoriesListByDate best, Mo…
01 Aug 2014, 14:13
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I think if it was me I would make it available print-on-demand as well as ebook. It's an extra chunk of work to prepare the files, but not a huge one compared to the project as …
01 Aug 2014, 08:00
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Given Wolfe's preoccupations, it seems likely he is reading this as referring to the crucifixion, which Christ spends in the company of two thieves; and after three days he is re…
28 Jul 2014, 08:40
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Hydrargyrum is the Latinized Greek name for mercury, hence its chemical symbol Hg. The 'gyr' is just part of 'argyros', Greek for silver. My understanding is that everything desc…
16 Jul 2014, 13:59
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Just mercury, isn't it? Mo…
15 Jul 2014, 14:01
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Isaac Bashevis Singer, I would guess, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer Mo…
29 May 2014, 13:12
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Mm, my feeling too. I was impressed by the internal consistency of the suggested reading, but at the moment I can't see sufficient to justify its requirement. I don't know if th…
28 May 2014, 07:36
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An interesting explanatory theory for this story (from Storeys from the Old Hotel) has recently been added to the wiki: http://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Stories.Sighti…
27 May 2014, 09:03
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Bit more about it here: http://portlandcrime.blogspot.co.uk/2006/04/pandoras-box-murder.html Mo…
01 Apr 2013, 10:36
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Anyone know if this case might have been partial inspiration for GW? http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/03/27/pandoras-divorce/<http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/03/27/pandoras-di…
31 Mar 2013, 15:40
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